Academic books in the context of scientific evaluation

Along with scientific articles, academic books are vehicles for transmitting scientific knowledge, but fewer tools are available for their evaluation.

Often researchers do not know either the criteria used in the assessment of scientific monographs or the tools existing for that purpose, and therefore the USAL Bibliometrics and Scientific Information Observatory (Observatorio de Bibliometría e Información Científica) (OBIC) has organized a course entitled “Academic books in the context of scientific evaluation,” where participants will learn about aspects as fundamental for researchers as who evaluates scientific books in the area of Social Sciences and Humanities and how they are assessed; what the main indicators are for the evaluation of scientific books and the tool Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI) will be described.

The course is free and will be held on May 18 at the Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Salamanca from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and will be given by Elea Giménez from the research group of the CSIC, ILIA (Research into Academic Books)

This activity requires registration that can be done at this link

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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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